RMIsaac's FunPages

RMIsaac's FunPages CONTENTS: *Political Fun *Religious Fun *Jewish Fun *Cyber Fun *Pinochle! *Miscellaneous Fun

POLITICS:

Capitol Steps: political humor
Exploding Heads
Politics of Cartoon Characters: Is Daffy Duck a Republican?
The full 35,000 word text of that wacky guy, the Unabomber
The Political Graveyard: where you can find the burial places of thousands of politicians; very comprehensive
Dumb Laws: "huge collection of the most senseless laws in the entire United States"; check out your state and make sure you are a law abiding citizen!

RELIGION:

Which Religion is Best?: religions rated a la Consumer Reports
Jesus' Homepage: childhood pictures and all; very funny page
Stupid Jesus Tricks
First Church of Cyberspace: "Visit the Sanctuary or Gallery, or read psalms from the Hypertext or Multimedia bible at Reverend Charles Henderson's ecumenical site. Artist-in-residence, John Grover's oil painting of the church to which he and Rev. Henderson belong is featured. Sunday nights at 10:00 EST, join Reverend Henderson's Interfaith Forum with an Internet Chat line (directions and software download sites are available at this site)."
Another First Church of Cyberspace: "We are a non-denominational, untraditional church with an emphasis on the virtual aspects of our belief system."
The Trinity Explained: "One God, but three separate beings" -- here is a site that explains it as well as it can be explained...
How close is the Apocalypse? Find out with the Rapture Index
Antichrist.com: debunking of Christianity -- or is it? .. interesting and thoughtful, if verbose, site: "Biblically the name Antichrist means "anti-Love and Peace", but I've taken on that title to help people understand that, in most cases, Christianity promotes their message of Love with "Fire and Fear". I am an Antichristian, but I'm not really the Antichrist they were expecting. Yet I am (Rev 17:8). The Christian religion is the symbol of 'antichrist'. According to certain scriptures overlooked or misinterpreted, everlasting Hell is a place that their Jesus came to end once-and-for-all, and Christianity- for the most part- denies that he succeeded or that he WILL succeed. If there is such a place then Jesus obviously failed, but this web site, I'm hoping, will help people understand that eternal Hell is in the fire of their words..."
First Church of Shatnerology
Mormon Heresies: things Mormonism doesn't like too much
The Humanist Hymnal": "'revised' hymns and carols. Some are parodies and are meant to be funny. Others are more serious and attempt to promote a positive humanistic philosophy. Still others, in the parody process, emerged as very anti-Christian and will be considered offensive. You have been warned."
The Net Atheists!
The Celebrity Atheist List
How to Be an Extremely Reform Jew: "Why *can't* we have a Christmas tree?"; includes The Ten Suggestions, The Yo-Yo Diet Guide to Jewish Feasts and Fasts, and The Scratch & Sniff Passover Haggadah

PINOCHLE:

PENN PINOCHLE: the rules to the version of pinochle that I learned
Pinochle Rules: one version
Pinochle Rules: another version
Double Deck Pinochle
Two-Handed Pinochle
Pinochle Glossary: including terms I am not familiar with but what the heck
Pinochle Tactics and Tips: for bidding, calling trump, passing cards, taking tricks; good advice (though I disagree with the 2nd and 3rd tips under "Taking Tricks")
Pinochle is for Fun!: includes a player directory to see who plays near you
Pinochle Clubs

MISCELLANEOUS:

Sean Patrick Live!: like the JennyCam, this features every moment in the life of a gay man at home
Purity Test
The Death Test: when are you going to die?
Wonder where someone is buried?: Find-a-Grave: interesting bios, pictures and maps.
Your Life Expectancy: "This website provides health-related informational "tidbits" and an on-line test that will calculate your life expectancy."
6 degrees of Kevin Bacon
William Shatner Acting Simulator
The El Nino Hotline of DOOM!

Alligators in the sewers? Poodles in the microwave? Sick boy wants postcards? GoodTimes virus? Check the Urban Legends page, including:

     * David and Barbara Mikkelson's Urban Legend Reference Pages
     * Arthur Goldstuck's Legends from a Small Country
     * Dave Wilton's home page, containing English language and etymology
       information and links
     * Andy Warinner's home page, which debunks and comments on several
       interesting urban legends and factoids
     * Terry Chan's UL material

The AFU & Urban Legends Archive: the archives of alt.folklore.urban
Trolls, Hoaxes, Culture Jamming, Poetic Terrorism, Media Hacks, Frauds, Impostors, Spoofs, Counterfeits, Fakes, Pranks, Scams, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) "is a splendid educational magazine produced by the entire former editorial staff (1955-1994) of "The Journal of Irreproducible Results." The editorial board consists of more than 40 distinguished scientists from around the world including seven Nobel Laureates and a convicted felon. Each October, AIR produces the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at MIT, honoring people whose achievements cannot or should not be reproduced" in the fields of BIOLOGY: ENTOMOLOGY: ASTRONOMY: COMMUNICATIONS: PHYSICS: LITERATURE: MEDICINE: ECONOMICS: PEACE: METEOROLOGY
The Straight Dope: As they say, "Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (It's taking longer than we thought.)"... answers the questions you always had about Why Things Are the Way They Are... recently aired on A & E, it is now seeking another network...
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch: the village with the longest name in Britain
A pretty darn cool Card Trick! Also here: Card trick!
NAMES AND NUMBERS:
- What's in Your Name: uses math and numerology (kabbalah) to explore the power of a name
- Anagram Genius Server: mails you a long list of anagrams of any string you submit
- PhoNETic: makes acronyms out of any phone number! Also PhoneSpell
- Speaking of which... remember when the first two digits were represented by a two letters which were an abbreviation for a word, like PEnnsylvania 6-5000 or BUtterfield-8? Find out what word you can use for your own exchange at the Telephone Exchange Name Project: "resist the increasing trend towards digitizing our lives. Exchange names helped foster a sense of place, and community, in the same way that cities do. They're also a link to our more analog past which is fast slipping away."
- Main Sanitary Nag (Anagram Insanity): make anagrams out of any word(s)
- Joy of Pi: all sorts of neat things about 3.14159...
- Useless Pi Pages: tons of pi info
- Pi Factoids: more interesting factoids and formulas surrounding the irrational little dickens...
- The Ridiculously Enhanced Pi PAGE
- Lady Pi
- Beauty: a clever poem about pi, using numbers in many languages
The 69 Page
Favorite Constants
Largest Known Prime Numbers
Unclaimed Property Home Page
RogueMarket: try your hand at trading and profiting from the volatility of our popular culture; buy and sell shares of the same public figures that are trying to influence us.
CARDS AND LETTERS:
- AprilFools.com: "Put a friend (or yourself) in a realistic online 'news story'...Just add a few appropriate facts and click a button for an instant Web news page...Would you like to make someone think they just inherited a fortune, or maybe that their new computer has been recalled? We will build a realistic Web page with their name ... FakeMail: These official-looking notices and letters are good, clean fun. Delivered anonymously via the U.S. Postal Service, FakeMail has been known to fool even the sender! ...Have postcards -- complete with your personal message -- mailed to your workplace from such idyllic spots as San Francisco, Australia or the Corn Palace in South Dakota. The postcards will have real postmarks from the locations you choose."
- Birthday Postcards: this site allows you to use your own picture on the web, and choose from a large variety of music too
- Electronic Greeting Cards: good site
- www.123greetings.com
- Activegrams: clever, animated cards delivered by email or viewable on the web
- E-Toons, Electronic Greeting Cards on Gay Toons Syndicate
- Cartoon Bank: "world's largest stockhouse of single-panel cartoons, including the exclusive archive of all cartoons previously published in the New Yorker."
- The Surrealist Compliment Generator
- Complaint Letter Generator
- Cyrano Server: Valentine, love letter or Dear John letter generator
- Elizabethan Curse Generator: Revel in insults that may have been spoken by Shakespeare or Ben Jonson!
perfect present picker
Just like those round things with the floating cubes: The Magic 8 Ball
Kill the Teletubbies
I Can Eat Glass Project: based on the idea that people in a foreign country have an irresistable urge to try to say something in the indigenous tongue. In most cases, however, the best a person can do is "Where is the bathroom?" a phrase that marks them as a tourist. But, if one says "I can eat glass, it doesn't hurt me," you will be viewed as an insane native, and treated with dignity and respect." You can find this phrase in a zillion languages (real and invented) and dialects here.
All together now! Sing along! Karaoke Information
Alphabetical List of Cocktail Recipes
Becherovka: the national drink of the Czech Republic, a blend of spices the formula to which is known only to two people; it's great!
Budvar, a.k.a. Budweiser: "Budweiser Budvar, the "Original Budweiser" beer, is known for its unique quality, tradition and widely recognized rich, full-bodied taste. The brewing craftsmanship of Budweiser Budvar N. C., originates from a more than 700-year-old brewing tradition in Cesk� Budejovice - or Budweis, as it is known in German. Budweiser Budvar guarantees the production of a top lager known through-out the world as a symbol of exceptional quality."
Zwack Unicum: a pretty vile little liqueur from Hungary... but they have great merchandise!
SchoolSucks: term papers already written for you!
Meteorite Yields Evidence of Primitive Life on Early Mars
Facade: interactive attractions on the Internet: prophecy sites: free readings using Tarot, Runes, the I Ching, and Biorhythms. "Recent additions to the available methods of divination are Bibliomancy and Stichomancy. If you'd prefer a less esoteric thrill, Cindy Crawford Concentration may be the distraction that you seek."
The I Ching
Astrodienst Atlas Database: makes your chart if you enter place and time of birth
The Devil's Dictionary: wry definitions from Ambrose Bierce (1911)

Comments? Write me at rmisaac@gmail.com